When I was in college, we had a Pascal compiler that would insert code for
you. If you left off a semi-colon (the most common mistake), the compiler
would issue a warning stating "Missing semi-colon, assumed" and go on its
way. This was on a DEC VAX/VMS system in the late 1980's (1985 - 1988).

Guy Hammond wrote:

> Very dangerous. Like, Captain Kirk might say, "Mr. Spock, cancel the> self destruct sequence" so Mr. Spock goes to his SQL*Plus terminal and> types:>> SQL> ALTER STARSHIP SET AUTODESTRUCT>> But at that moment, Dr McCoy walks in, slips in a puddle of Romulan Ale> and grabs Mr. Spock for support, whose finger slips on to the ENTER key.> The Enterprise replies:>> ERROR at line 1:> ORA-435334: keyword not found where expected, substituting ON to> continue...>> :0)>> g>> -----Original Message-----> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:46 PM> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L>> Funny. I liked the self-referential acronym bit. I don't like> computers> (or computer languages or OSs) that "know" what I want to do but refuse> to> do it. An example from our own wonderful SQLPlus:>> SQL> select table_name sys.dba_tables;> select table_name sys.dba_tables> *> ERROR at line 1:> ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected>> Now why doesn't it just put the "FROM" in and get on with it? It> "knows"> what's missing!! Is it doing this to embarrass and annoy me or am I> just> being paranoid (and if I'm going to be "nuts" I'd rather be paranoid> than a> single-noid).> --> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com> --> Author: Guy Hammond> INET: guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>> Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051> San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists> --------------------------------------------------------------------> To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message> to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in> the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L> (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may> also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).

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